30/05/2025
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🔥 Tracking Wildfire Intensity from Space
When wildfires strike remote regions like Alaska, on-the-ground assessments can be difficult. That’s why USGS scientists turned to 20 years of satellite data to evaluate a key fire characteristic: fire radiative power (FRP)—a real-time measure of how intensely a fire burns.
Their findings? Different ecosystems burn at different intensities. For example, white spruce forests generally burn more intensely than black spruce or tundra. This information helps land managers better predict fire behavior and plan effective recovery strategies.
Next efforts will expand the study to other ecosystems in the U.S. to determine how satellite estimates of fire intensity can complement and enhance estimates of fire severity.
🔗Learn more about how satellite-based fire science is advancing post-fire response 👉https://ow.ly/aHGO50W16Vm
🛰️: True-color image of wildfire smoke over Alaska on July 7, 2019 captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite.
